#BUSKING

[whereifindsanity]

Hallelujah by Allie Sherlock & Fionn Whelan

[cosplaymutt]

I didn’t make a lot of cash on my first Central Park busking attempt, but I did make a new fan so I think it was worth it! 🐶 🪕🎶

[barachiki]

Just a little busking outside of 221b.

[sluggoonthestreet]

Caleb is still trying to learn a song that will make people throw snacks.

[env0]

Hashira Training: Rengoku Theme ~Fire Breathing Technique 3 "Constitent Flame"

Unedited. Candid comments. Share your favorite line when they meme on me. Support your local artist!

[therian-n-furry-blogger]

best i can do (tired)

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[scotianostra]

Busking, Albanian style! 🇦🇱

[lukenewtonlove]

Luke busking back in the day 🎤

[switchscene]

One thing I've learned from busking is that people have zero media literacy.

My boyfriend and I go and busk in a touristy area all the time, old folks come to our island to snowbird every year and they love us. They'll ask about Max's mandolin or my tiny banjo (it's not a banjolele I will yell if you insist it is it has five strings), ask where we're from and are just taken when I reply in my lil southern drawl that "I grew up on the mainland just across the river," or listen to Max talk about liking the south more than California.

If you sandwich Days N Daze's To Risk To Live, or Blaze Foley's Election Day, or our song about John Henry that pulls no punches calling out historic and modern racism between a couple traditional folk songs, old conservatives will completely miss the messaging and just clap along (and give us money). Some folks will stop and talk to us for minutes on end, talkin about how good it is that we're keeping traditions alive and playing old time stuff, or marvel at the novelty of a washboard, but the message is completely lost.

And while this is busking, it's making scratch for bills and cigarettes and not meant to change hearts and minds, sometimes it's disheartening.

My buddy Bobby (of Blossomin' Bone, linked) has said the same thing about Take the Gold, a song he and his wife wrote about how money is fake and being worn down by society's need to chase it fucking sucks. But folks hear a banjo and a story about hopping freight trains and everything else goes out the window.

And I think if you're creating content (of any kind) that has an alternative bent, that operates on or talks about the margins of society, you have to kind of take with a grain of salt that your content will probably find its way to people that don't share your values. And maybe they'll analyze their worldview after hearing your stirring lyrics or seeing your art, but most likely they won't. What Machine you're Raging Against will be lost on them, but that won't be the case for the intended audience, and I think that's okay because it's inevitable. Keep making it cause it makes the world a better place.

Up the punx y'all~

[gwenllian-in-the-abbey]

Street musicians, New Orleans, 2017 photo by @gwenllian-in-the-abbey

[whereifindsanity]

Cam Cole is a new age traveler who roams around performing his one-man-band show on streets & venues.

[bruce-morrow]

Venmo Maya & Max Music, Central Park, NYC, 2024

Photo: Bruce Morrow

[risu442]

[bigdamnproject]

More busking! Tycho, Bourbon, and Jon

Song is "Medicines (Sawbones version)" by The Taxpayers

Color Palette is Dreamy Summer by Gandalfsoda 

[env0]

Rengoku Theme - Fire Breathing Fifth Form: Flicker and Flow

(turns out it's 13 minutes long and i sprained or rolled my ankle in the first hour of a 4 hour set.)

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

Leicester Square in London, 1950s

Albert Flint